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@einen tant gstrnt @ffice Letters Patent No. 82,544, dated September 29, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN NAME-PLATES FOR STREET-LAMPS.

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TO ALL WHOMIT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, C. J. OHARA, of the city of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have `invented a certain new, useful, and improved Mode of Placing the Names of Streets on Street-Lamps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this speciiication, in which-- Figure 1 is a front view of one side of a street-lamp with my improvement attached thereto, and

Figure 2 a sectional edge view in the line a b of one side of a street-lamp, with my improvement attached.

My invention has for its object to provide a cheap and expeditious means of placing the names of streets on street-lamps, without painting the same upon the 'glass sides of the lamps, or taking down the lamp, or in any other manner interfering with the same, and so, also, as that the glass sides of the lamps may be kept clean, and the name of the street be preserved intact, even although said sides be broken or entirely withdrawn; and my invention consists of a narrow piece of glass or other equivalent substance, on which the name of the street is painted, that is enclosed in and protected by a metallic-edge frame, having inclined or bevelled ends, in order that saiduends may conform to the inclination of the corner-pieces of the lamp to which it is applied, which is placed inside the lamp, and sustained near the glass, on the side of the lamp on which the name of the street is to show, by the two opposing ledges or anches upon the corner-pieces of the lamp-frame, against which the contiguousends of the two flanking panes of glass are supported, and secured from falling out by broad oblate or flat hooks, the ends of -which clasp the hanches of the same corner-pieces of the lamp that support the pane of glass that is immediately in front of it. f l

But my invention will be better and more quickly understood by referring to the drawing.

A. A are two corner-pieces of an ordinary street-lamp, which, it will be observed, consists of a circular bar, usually hollow, from which, at right'angles to each other, project two lanches, a a', for the support of the glass sides of` the lamp. B is a pane of glass covering the side of a lamp, as when it is made in the usual manner, and C the piece of glass on which the name of a street is written. This piece of glass isprotected upon its edges by ametallic frame, 6, to the ends of which are attached the hooks c e', which take over'the tlanchcs a a, that project from the corner-pieces A A', and so constitute grooves in which. the said anches fit.

The lamp or lamp-frame being wider .attop than at bottom, the supplemental .piece C, which I may very properlyy call the name-plate, can be placed inits position or place without the slightest difficulty, and whenever the lamp'needs to be cleaned, it can be withdrawn as readily as'it was put into place, by simply lifting it up until it attains to a point at which the width of the lamp, orv the space between the corner-pieces thereof, becomes greater than its own length. Whenin' its place, the hooks c c', in connection with the inclined form of its ends, and the corresponding inclination of the corner-pieces of the lamp-frame, hold it so securely that itcannot be displaced by any accidentl to which. street-lamps are liable, -even although it be broken by the violence thereof, as well as the glass sides of the lamp. For, even if broken, the edge-frame 6 will prevent it from falling out, whilst the breaking of the glass constituting the sides or walls of the lamp, does not aife'ct it in the slightest degree. Hence it will be seen, that under all circumstances and conditions, the great object intended to be secured by my invention, to wit, the indicationl of the name of the street on the street-lamps is attained with absolute certainty. It will be observed, furthermore, that by means of my invention the names of the streets lighted by them may be put on every street-lamp with very little expense, because the plates C Y may be framed, and have the proper names put or painted' on them at one shop orI place for each city or town,

as the case may be, and then carried in a wagon, and, without the use of a; ladder, from the wagon itself be quickly put into each lamp. The name-plate may be inserted or iixed, in relation to the top and bottom of the lamp, about as shown on thc drawing, or it may be placed higher up or lower down, but in no case should it be put low enough down to throw a shadow on the pavements lighted by the lamp to which it is applied.

Having thus described my invention, whatIclaim, and desire t-o secure by Letters Patent, is-

The molle herein described of marking orv placing the names of streets upon 'street-lamps,` by means of a transverse supplemental name-plate, C, when the same is provided with an edge-frame, b,'bevelled ends, and oblute hooks ce', and is applied or placed within the lamp, as herein described for the purpose set forth,

C. J. OHARA.

`Witnesses:

RUrUs lt. RHODES, LYuAn HARDING. 

